* Normal starter returned from injury/rest.1 Lee entered the game down 42-10 with 9:35 left in the 3rd quarter; the Broncos fumbled on the goal line on what would have been the go-ahead touchdown with 3:33 left in the game.2 Slaughter got married the day before the Week 5 home game against the Chiefs and his parents had come in from Louisiana for the wedding.3 Ray Malavasi, in his last game as interim coach, claimed he started Glacken because he could throw deep passes. Glacken completed just one pass in three drives and was benched for McCormick with the Broncos trailing the Bills 17-0. The Bills’ win clinched the AFL Eastern Division, knocking the Patriots out of playoff contention.4 Weese dislocated his right kneecap in the same game.5 Maddox alternated with Shawn Moore for nearly every play in both the Week 15 and 16 games.6 Manning made the first and only relief appearance of his 18-year career in a comeback win against the Chargers in Week 17.

* Normal starter returned from injury/rest.1 Schroeder after being benched: “In Washington, I knew what I was doing…. I really don’t know everything I need to know to be able to perform.”2 Cook is the only quarterback to make his first NFL start in a playoff game.

* Normal starter returned from injury/rest.1 Tensi came in after halftime and threw 4 touchdowns.2 Backup Bill Munson broke his left leg in the same game.3 Leaf missed the entire 1999 season after offseason surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder.

A potentially controversial sequence of events occurred late in the second half of the Packers-Falcons game when it appeared that two different players possibly threw punches that could’ve have warranted ejections.